Thursday, October 17, 2013

I had a lot of fun today playing with my Quilt Pro quilting software and designing this quilt.

I've been trying to come up with a design that I could use to make a quilt with all of the purple, yellow and orange scraps that I have collected. I know the colors above are different than those colors, but it still gives me ideas.

A favorite tree of mine growing up was the Autumn Purple White Ash, which we used to call a "Purple Grandma Tree." We had one in our yard on Sycamore, and when I moved back to that house as an adult, the tree was gigantic and the star of the yard in the fall. We planted two of them in the yard on Oakwood, and there are three of them across the street from our new home, so I get to see them all the time. The leaves turn purple and gold. This is a Autumn Purple White Ash tree in all of its glory:

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I have been quilting since the early 1990s and have taught many beginner quilting classes in my home and various quilt shops in the area. In 2001, I started my own professional long arm quilting business and quilted more than 120 quilts for my customers over the next two years. One quilt that I did the custom quilting on toured the country with The Alliance for American Quilts and was raffled off, raising $10,000 for that organization. The quilt was featured on the television show Simply Quilts on HGTV and in Quilter's Newsletter Magazine. Another of my quilts, which I designed myself, won a ribbon at the Heritage Quilters Guild Quilt Show in Lockport, Illinois, in 2003.